Sheri Fink won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her reporting on a New Orleans story that drew huge national attention: the possible euthanasia of patients at Memorial Medical Center when flood waters from federal level failures inundated the facility in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In September, Fink’s book-length account of the tragedy was released: “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” (Crown, $27).

Fink, who also is a medical doctor, returns to New Orleans on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m., for a lecture at the Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave. Her talk is the centerpiece of the JCC’s annual Jewish Book Festival. Admission to the talk is $5. Tickets are available online and at the JCC reception desk.

“Five Days at Memorial” details the situation in the flooded hospital and follows the subsequent legal proceedings in which caregivers at the hospital were charged with murder.

The book has been earning great reviews.

New Orleans author Jason Berry praised Fink’s work in The New York Times, calling it “an unforgettable story . . . social reporting of the first rank.” The Minneapolis Star Tribune said that the discussion of euthanasia in “Five Days at Memorial” makes it “an important book that will make your blood boil no matter which side of the issue you support.”